Your letterEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. was forwarded to me this morning. You recollect I wrote you that the probabilities were that I should have to come here to teach a class. I came the 8th of this months, and gave an hour and a half'sCorrected:hour-and-a-half's talk in the parlors of the Riggs House the next morning. I think there were all of forty people there, and we did nothing to advertise it either. I think nearly every state in the Union was represented, by the wives of senators and congressmen. Mrs Speaker CarlisleEditorial Note: Mary Jane Goodson Carlisle (b. Goodson) (1835-1905) was married to John G. Carlisle, who served as speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1883 to 1889. Carlisle was prominent in Washington, D.C. social circles for many years, and greatly aided her husband's political career. sat close to me, and seemed deeply interested. The next morning I commenced my lessons. Phoebe CozzensEditorial Note: Phoebe W. Couzins (1842-1913) was one of the first female lawyers in the United States. She was the second woman to serve as a licensed attorney in Missouri and the third or fourth to be a licensed attorney in the United States. In 1887, she was the first woman appointed to the U.S. Marshal service. Couzins also played an active part in the Suffrage movement and was a founder of the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA). Susan B. Anthony, Mrs Dr Newman, Mrs SomersEditorial Note: Elizabeth J. Somers (1837-1924) founded the Mount Vernon Seminary in Washington, D.C. in 1875. At that time, the Seminary offered the only higher education institution for women in Washington, D.C. and quickly earned an esteemed reputation for its refined academic and social education. Mount Vernon first attracted prominent Washington officials' daughters, but many young women from around the world would later also attend., a lady at the head of the largest most flourishing girl's Corrected: girls' school here, in the city, Mrs Mark HopkinsEditorial Note: Mary Frances Hopkins Searles (b. Sherwood) (1818-1891) was a millionaire who was residing in California during this time. After the death of her first husband, railroad tycoon Mark Hopkins, Jr., in 1878, she was one of the richest women in the United States and used her wealth to further her grand architectural interests. the wealthy California widow, and at least ten others, each one bright, gifted women. I talk to them from ten till twelve, and at half-past six in the evening go to Mrs Sen. Leland Stanford to whom I am giving private lessons. There-by Corrected: thereby hangs a tale. There is a mind-cure here – a Miss Sheldon, a very intellectual maiden lady who had commenced giving Mrs Stanford private lessons – but as soon as she found Mrs Std S– had engagend me she refused to go near her, so now I am making her a true Christian Scientist. I lost two of my scholars the first lesson because of my audacity in daring to tell the class you were the originator of Mental Science One of said pupils had taken a course of Mrs Newman, and she could'nt Corrected: couldn't stand it to hear you praised. I let them go, and rather than with-hold Corrected: withhold my love and admiration for you, my dearest and best, they might have all gone. And now you will see why I cannot go to BostonEditorial Note: Boston, Massachusetts. My business left in the hands of my assistant and one of my pupils is not Corrected: no doubt trembling in the balance. When people go to my office they want me. I regret it more than I can tell you but you will understand.